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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

ployeS chose to use it. No officer of the
company would have anything to do
with the active management of the club,
and the building and furnishings were
turned over as unreservedly as though
the men had tOIght and paid for it. The
only restriction the company placed
was that the house should be con-
Quoted on proper principles, Mr.. Stick
ney, III his little speech, said that he
had long considered the hardshipS TO
which railroad men had been subjected,
and had determined that when he had
chance he would try to do something
for them. He had seen engineers and
firemen curled up on the seats in their
cabs trying to sleep, ane had seen brake
men and conductors shivering i'll dirty
cabO0SeS for want of a decent bed to
sleep Oh when they needed rest. He
thought railroad men were entitled to
better treatment, and now that he had
control of a railroad he wanted to see if
his ideas were not correct. He had pro-
vided the club house that the men might
have good bed and warm room when
they came in off their runs, and he
thought the boys would not object to
such comforts.
With that understanding the employees
organized a club. The first officers
HCIC NiOOtOu III uhO oAN 60 AOi
lows:
Managing Board-O. O. Winter, f. K.
Fluke, P. Riley, Thomas Newman, c. f.
Slayton, F. Carney. p. Hinkle, NJ. ID. Flower.
Officers-President. N. d. Flower, st. Paul,
Mimi; vice president c. f. Slayton, Elma,
To-; secretary and treasurer, L. X. Fluke,
Elma, 10.
The rules of the club are very simple.
Three months of actual service on the
road is condition of membership. The
board of managers have absolute con-
troll of the affairs of the club, the COM
pany furnishing janitor, fuel, lights,
and everything necessary, except the
laundry, which is paid for out of the
club funds. The individual dues do mot
exceed 81 per month, and no member is
called on to pay for anything
used in the club. A perfect syS-
TEN of accounts has been devised
by the managers. and everything
is conducted on the same principle
as any private club, except that the
railroad company fOots the bills, which
are sent in every month. And there is
no kicking about the expense. Soon
after the club was organized the di-
rectors of the road ''chipped'' in and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

There is no marked and positive
change in the realty market, and in most
respects its condition is the same as it
was last week. There has been rather
more inquiry and more freedom i'll talk
ing upon the subject, while sales have
been little more numerous. There is
not difference enough. though. in this
respect. to enable a person to base any
opinion on as to all improvement in the
market. Taken altogether ii may he
said that the market has healthier and
more encouraging appearance.
Many reasons are given for this
change. There seems TO be general
expectation that the beginning of the
new year would witness marked I'M
provement. People seem to be more
confident and courageous. There is less
said about hard times. A gentleman Il
few days agO-a pretty heavy dealer.
too-said: This howl about hard
times is very absurd. This is no
sense in it. 1t is not true.
The times are not hard. If they are.
do not understand what the term hard
times means. Our wholesale houses
have never. at any period in the history
of the city, sold rs many goods as they
have this year. and in such lines as
groceries and dry goods. that sell good
deal in the fall. our merchants have
never had as good Il fall trade as tlffy
have this year. q
''As for collections, the month of;$o-
vember has been wonderful one. Hlls
have been paid UP with promptHesS
never before approached. 1t is a we'll
known and admitted fact that coIlec-
tons have been 50 liberal as to surprise
the lObberS and to cause remark and
comparisons. This is not con
fined to one kind or line of goods,
but the statement extends to all
branches. Tile fact of it is the iobbing
trade of st. Paul has been enormous
and unprecedented this fall. Now. l
should like to know what all this means.
Why is it that the people in the interior
are buying so many goods and paying
for them so promptly? There is no
trouble at all about knowing what the
reason is if a person is disposed to be
honest and speak the truth.
-
"When people in the country have no
money and want dry goods, hardware,
etc., they are compelled TO let want be
their MASTER and go without seeh
things till they can afford 10 buy them
and pay for them. This year they are
not in that disagreeable position. The
crops have been large and prices
have been rather better than last year.
The farmers are one year farther along
in getting their farms paid for, and to
sum up all the farmers. the tillers of the
soil, the source of wealth and greatness,
are in a better financial condition
than they ever were before. The
result is that they all buy more freely
and pay more promptly. Then
what becomes of all this hue and cry
about hard times9 It's fraud. The
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

He Wears No Clothes Worth Mem
tioning and Eats Little or Moth
ing.
London Spectator.
There is no abStemiOuSneSS in the
world and no thrift like the thrift and
abstemi0uSness of the average native of
India. Almost alone among the work
ingmen of the world, he has raised him
self nearly apove wants, has stripped
himself of all the impedimentS of
luxury. Millions of men in India, es-
peeially on the richer soils and in the
river deltaS, live, marry, and
rear apparently healthy chill
dren upon an income which, even
when the wife works. is rarely
above shilIings week, and frequently
sinks to Is pence. The Indian is en-
abled to do this not so much by the
cheapnesS of foOd-for, though it is
cheap, a European who ate the same
food would want five times the money
merely to feed himself-as by habit of
living which makes him Independent OF
the ordinary cares of mankind. He goes
nearly without clothes, gives his chill
dren none, and dresses his wife in
long piece of the most wretched muslin.
Neither he nor his wife pay tailor or
milliner one shilling during their entire
lives, nor do they ever purchase needles
OF thread, which, indeed, it is contrary
to semi-roligiOus etiquette ever to
use. The poorer peasant inhabltS hut
containing a single covered room of the
smallest size with an earthern platform
or two outside it: and as he constructs
and repairs his own dwelling he viz
tually pays no rent. except for the cul-
turable land. He never touches alcO-
hol or any substitute for it. There lSan
idea in England that he eats opium or
hemp; but he, as a rule, Swal-
lows neither-frStly, because he re-
CARDS them with as much moral an
tipathy as any English gentleman, and
secondly, because he could not by any
possibility pay for articles which in
India. as everywhere else. are exceed
ingly expensive. He eats absolutely no
meat. nor any animal fat, nor any eX.
penSive grain like good wheat: bu
lives on millet or small rice, little
milk, with the butter from the
milk. and the vegetables he grows.
Even of these he eats more spar
ingly than the poorest Tuscan. Once
quarter, perhaps. he will eat enough,
during some festival, but as rule he
knows accurately what will sustain
him, and would be enraged at the wife
who cooks for him if she prepared
more. He is assisted in this economy
by religious rule which we have never
seen HindoO break. and which is un-
doubleday, like the rule against killing
oxen, survival from military law or
custom of the most remote antiquity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

kind on record in the Northwest where
a railroad company has shown any IN
terest in the comfort of its employees
while off duty-or while on, for that
matter. One day last June President \.
B. Stickney sent word to all his en-
plOyes to meet him at Elma to talk over
a little matter of business, says the st.
Paul correspondent of the Chicago Trib-
une. The men knew that a building
had been erected by the railroad com
pany at that place. and it was under
stood. in a vague sort of way, that it was
to be used as a hotel for employees or
something of that sort. When the men
gathered in the new building they
found handsomely furnished
club house, perfect in all its
appointments. After a little lunch
Mr.. StickneY aStOniShed the men by
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
For the Superstitious Only.

Tid-Bits.
1t is unlucky to leave house on Saturday
without paying the rent-for the landlord.
Never begin work on Friday, especially if
your father provides you a sufficient income.
1t is unluckv to be discharged from good
situation on Friday.
To pass a churn ana not give helping
hand is unlucky-to the person who is churn-
ing.
Never pay bills on the first Monday of the
year. or at any other time. if you can help it.
1t is lucky to breakfast by candle light on
Christmas morning provided there is plenty
to eat.
If the palm of the hand itches it is g sign of
cutaneouS irritation.
1t is bad luck to call a man liar on
Wednesday, especially if the callee be bigger
than the caller.
To knock over the salt-cellar at the dinner
table is sign of awkwardness.
If & man with gray hair falls in love with a
young girl he will dye.
mans name on an umbrella is q sign it
belongs to him (the name, Lot the umbi ella.)
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

thing, but to play it in the minds of the
spectators is another. believe that L
am the only Hamlet on the stage, and if
have not appeared in the character it
is because l feel that l could find no one
else to share my conviction on this sub
iect. But shall die in that faith. as
Burton carried to the grave his convic-
ton that the world was blind to his Trip
let as they would be to my Hamlet. To
satisfy any one how :prejudiced the
world may be let me recall a perform
ance l gave of Louis the Eleventh. They
said played the French king with
brogue. Dion BOUCICAULT.
New York, Dec. s.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
Notes and Sales.

T. p. Miller-During this last month
of 1857 have been very busy closing
deals and answering inquiries. The
amount of inquiry during this week has
been phenomenal. | believe that inside
property. especially OH st. Anthony
hill, will be advanced nearly p per cent
inside of four months from now.
W. IL. Burns Il Co. sold two lots in
block -, South ST. Paul, for 81 go cash.
They report several inquiries at the
stock yards and along the new line of
railway.
c. I'll. Wallow sold to J.W. Ham, sixty
acres at the Minneapolis stock yards
for $4,000. This property is about seven
miles northwest of st. Paul where con-
siderable stir is at present and where
heavy investments are being made.
y. L. kavaEagh-Everyth is quiet.
OF course we are selling something all
the time. The market is improving
slowly, and good S per cent paper, Sc
cured by mortgage, is in good request.
Clark & Bryant Things are quiet,
though we are selling something all the
time.
Arthur Regers-Prices are firm and
good property will sell. Money is conf
ing in quantities from the East for in
NeSClHtIlt.
Bushnell & Bushnell-We are selling
right along, but OF course. not as much
as we sold early in the spring. During
the last two weeks we have conveyed
$4l,0a0 worth of property in lrvir Grove
Factory addition. Inquiries from the
East are multiplying rapidly.
W L. Burton-The real estate market
is certainly improving and we only need
a slight change for the better in the
money market to set the real estate
dealers hard at work drawing contracts.
Weatherby Il Hay-Business is fair
and there is more of an Indication to
trade than has been observed for some
time past.
The eoptraet4s are industriously at
work on the old exposition building
transforming it into a theater.
Stone IL Morton-Business now is
quiet. but is improving.
Middleton, Dugan & Hanson The
market is improving aud inside prop
erty is selling we'll.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

ing his two days. journey with cattle
train to Chicago and back. On the upper
floor are the bedrooms. These rooms
are small and contain single iron bed
stead, table, and couple of chairs.
There are no closets in the rooms, as
there is abundant room in the cloak
men bring into the club. The beds are
all provided with fine wool mattresses
and the clothing is of the same quality
used on the best sleeping cars. The
beds are dressed newly every day and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
lNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE,

United STATES INDIAN SERVICE,
u Sisscton Agency, OAK, Nov. g. 1887
Sealed proposals. Endorsed Proposals for
stock cattle, wagons, plows, lumber build.
ing materials, etc. Gas the case may beg, and
addressed TO the United States Indian Agent
Sisseton Agency, Dakota, will be received
until ~ o'clock m, Wednesday, Dec. 81,
1887, for furnishing and delivering at that
agency about 60 milk cows 14O work oxen,
2horses, 70 farm wagons, 100 plows, No.
windows, SO doors, $4,000 lath, IS bar
rels lime, 80 bushels hair, 100 perches stone
work and 1,500 yards plastering. The cat
tle wagons and other articles called for must
be according to specifications, which will be
furnished upon application to the under
signed. Contracts will be awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder or bidders, subject
to the approval of the department of the in
terror. The right to rejsct any and all bids
or any part of any bid is hereby reserved.
Proposals must state specifically the price of
each article offered, and must have copy of
this advertisement attached.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certified
checks upon some United States depository,
payable to the order of the undersigned, for
at least 5 per cent of the amount of the pro-
posal, which check will be forfeited to the
United States in case any bidder or bidders
receiving an award shall fail to promptly ex-
eclIte a contract with good and sufficient
sureties, otherwise to be returned to the bid
der. For full particulars apply to
JAMES d. JENKINS,
326-346 United States Indian Agent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

telling them in a
very few words that
the building ha d
been put Il p for
their own particular
use. and then and
there turned t h e
whole thing over to
them absolutely. to
b e conducted by
themselves in their
own way and for
their own comfort.
Everyth in g W a s
paid for, and the
company. Mr.. Stick
ney said, Oul d
maintain the club
at its own expense
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
2. z. zsiseBnaeRger's List.
4I2 Rice 81,

Houses With lots at bargains: 500 lots OIL
Il and near Rice st; at all prices, OF
monthly payments, OF Oh terms To- suit you
200 acres III acre lots or fiye-acrc lots on Rice
St. on Mc6aron,s lake. Sandy lake sabbath,
lake Bass lake and other lakes at $50 icr
acre alltl upwards. on easy terms and at great
bargaiEs j. +. Eiseumengcr, 49, k:ec St
25ls
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
The Plan of the President of
the Minnesota & North
western Road
To Improve the Mental and
Physical Condition of His
Railroad Employees.
He Builds a Cozy Club House
at Elma, Iowa, for
Their Use.
A Description of the House
and the Plan on Which
It Is Run.

HE saying that "eor
porations h a v e n
souls" does not al
ways hold good. One
notable exception is
t h e Minnesota d
Northwestern X il
r o a d company. A
handsome monument
to the humane in
stincts of this eorpOr-
alton stands at the
little town of Elma,
To-. in the shape of a
club house for the
use and benefit of its
employees. 1t is the
first instance of the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
BOARD WANTED.

BOARD and lodging by young gentleman
ID in Catholic private family, in the i'm
mediate vicinity of st. Mary's church. Ad-
dress " SO, Globe. 345
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
DYE WORKS.

n L. JAMESON & CO.'S Steam Dye
IL. Works-Gents' clothing specially
4l2 Wabasha st. end Ia West Sixth, st. Paul
Mimi. 1915
nor THE HOLIDAYS-Point laces lace
L Madras and silk curtains, kid gloves and
fancy articles cleaned, 30l2 West Third st.
Mrs A. j. Hayes, Manager. 345
OSTRICH FEATHERS dyed to match
" dress trimming, and curled by experts;
toboggan suits, kid gloves cleaned. Hayes &
Hayes, 30la West Third ST.. up stairs. 345
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

One of the features of the market
during the week has been the large
amount of Eastern money put into
mortgage notes. One gentleman from
Philadelphia took S50,000 in lump.
Eight per cent with st. Paul real estate
security is regarded with much more
favor than almost any other kind of in
yeStment in the East.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
THE ABsTEMIOUS HINDOO.

He Wears No Clothes Worth Mem
tioning and Eats Little or Moth
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
81. Paul WANTS.

WANTS on this page will be inserted under
classified headings according to the following
TABLE OF RATES
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
The Record.
LAST WEEK s TRANSFERS.

diamond Je;yelry.
EGO to Gil lists for it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
FINANCIAL.

MONEY TO LOAN-By Hunt & Sever
I1 ance, 81 East Third ST., room l; in
large and small amounts ON furniture, horses.
carriages, libraries, warehouse receipts etc.
the same to remain in the owners posses
sion; also on watches, jewelry. diamonds.
etc; business strictly confidential; private
room for ladies. 292*
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
REAL EsTATE For SALE.

&Q60 EACH for two fine lots in Lover
aDCcO ing Park, facing on St. Anthony
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11

times are not hard. There is more bust
ness transacted now than evor before.
So driven are the manufacturers that
they are compelled to refuse all orders
for future delivery. They are forced to
they now have on hand"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-23
Secretary Lamar and the Land
Grants.

There has been a good deal of discussion
in the newspapers this week concerning the
subj act of land grants, occasloned by the
decision of Secretary Lamar against the
Atlantic & Pacific railroad by which it is
declared that many millions of acres of land
are taken from the possession of fraudulent
holders and restored to cultivation and SET
Element. Secretary Lamar has been held up
as worthy of all praise for his righteous
decision, and the Cleveland administration
generally has been glorifed for its vigorous
efforts in behalf of reform, and the rights of
the dear people But it may be well to ask
whether all this glorifcation be not little
premature There is no doubt that soma of
the land grant railroad companies have taken
advantage of the government to obtain more
land than they are entitled to, and the sooner
these are regularly and legally dspossessed
of that which they have fraudently
obtained he better. But this is one
thing, and the assumption that all
the land grant companies are
thieves and land pirates to be summarily
dealt with ia quite another. 1t must be
Remembered that the government, that is, the
people through their representatives, con-
sent-,' give certain lands as an inducement
70 capi.aasts to undertake the construction of
great highways through unsettled regions as
a means of binding the country together,
unifyiag its interests, and for the develop
ment of vast mineral and other resources
which were beyond the reach of industry
without these roads. 1t is to be remembered
that the lands given were largely valueless
without the roads. To take from any railroad
compsny that which has been lawfully given
is an act with which the people have no
sympathy. Whether the lands in
question have been lawfully ac-
CURED is for the courts TO
determine, and Secretary Lamsr's much
trumpeted decisions are by no means sutorita-
tive or final. Tue Secretary is evidently
doing his best to make political capital for sn
administration sadly in need of it, and when
looked at rightly, it will be found that his
action is OF piece with the cheap demsgog
ism which in so many other particulars has
characterized the Cleveland administration.
The determination of how much the grants
legally made actually cover, and how far
these conditions have been complied with, is
one of law pure and simple and belongs to
the courts, where we take it the people are
content to leave it. Secretary Lamar has not
yet been advanced to the bench, whatever
may be the Presidents intentions concerning
hm.-Boston Ttdreller.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-23
How Chocolate Is Made.
BROUGHT FROM THE WEST INDIES IN THE
Pop AND PUT THROUGH A MILLING Pro
CESS

Chocolate" said confectioner, sis made
from beans that grow IN pods on the cacao
tree. These trees are numerous in the West
Indies, and it is from there we get our supply
Tee beans are brought hither in the pod, and
pu. through regular manufacturing process
TO produce the chocolate cakes we use. The
frst ot' ~ i1n is the breaking of the husks
aG0 -eu.rsI~E them from the kernels by a
bias u a. Then the beans are ground with
sugar by revolving granite grindstones The
stones are heated, and the oil contained in the
bean makes the mass adhere and become a
thick paste. This pulp is now partly dried
and the air bubbles are squeezed out in
press, and it is transferred to the cooling
tables Here it is beaten and worked BY hand
to produce an even texture and a fine grain.
Then 1t Is placed in moulds, blast of cold
air is turned on, and in few moments the
beautiful glossy tablets are finished.
"Fhe British government has recently di-
rected that chocolate be served TWO or three
times a week in their army and navy. In
confectionery the Parisians exceed US in the
number of preparations of chocolate. We
use it in its natural flavor, while they mix es
sences and other f1avors with it, until there is
no end 10 the combinations that they produce.
In England much OF the chocolate is aduler-
ated. Some recent tests detected Fl our, starch,
potato, lard, chalk, bran and old sea-biscuit
in specimens offered for sale"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-23
"Turn the Rascals Out"

Since the democrats have been in power
ia Indiana matters have been going from
bad to worse. Especially has this been
observed in the handling of the States
moneys. Not only have the officials been
lavish in the expenditures of money but it
is limited that large sums have been dis.
bursed in ways that are ''past finding out, ="
without a recourse to Investigation of such
a nature as to render it very unpleasant
for the party. The State is declared
bankrupt. A special to The Philadelphia
Press gives the particulars of the situation.
Il saws
The financial embsrrassments of Indiana
are growing worse I'D more serious. The
last dollar in the general fund of the state
treasury was paid out to-day (Fridsy)
and there are no resources that
can be drawn upon before uext
December. In the meantime $500, 600 will
be needed TO pay the current expenses of the
state government and public institutions
Treasurer Lemcke apnoun noes thar he will call
upon the counties to advanced funds. but if
they do so it will be voluntarily. as the law
does not require them to respond to such calls
when they owe the state nothing One effect
OF the exhaustion of the treasury will be the
suspension of work upon all state institutions,
of which several are now in course of cree
ton. The condition of the treasury is due to
the extravaganza of the democratic officers
and the failure of the last General Assembly
to make needed appropriations.
Providing that there is no fraud or dis
honesty such an example of mismanage-
ment by the party in power, should be
considered adequate for its dismissal and
should justify the cry of Turn the
Rascals Out"